Building Bridges for historical learning
A National Symposium
Building Bridges for historical learning: connecting teacher education and museum education.
Was held on the 28-29 March 2011
At the Ann Harding Conference Centre, University of Canberra
Podcasts, slides, papers etc are available here
The Theme of the Symposium was:
This symposium will start a conversation between teacher educators and museum educators. It is founded upon two premises:
- There is still work to be done in the understanding of history education. While we now know a lot about historical literacy and historical thinking, how we transfer these to the classroom is still not fully understood.
- Teacher educators and museum educators have traditionally not shared knowledge, even though they both work to promote historical learning.
The Symposium aimed to:
- Facilitate connections between Museum Education and Teacher Education
- Share how each sector goes about teaching historical skills and understandings
- Understand how historical literacy and thinking are taught
- Improve the understanding of history education and its purpose
- Understand how artefacts are used to develop historical understanding
- Assist with decoding the discipline of history
- Assist with the development of the signature pedagogy of history
- Improve the quality of history education provided by schools, museums and other cultural institutions
Who Attended?
Teacher educators, museum educators, interpreters and others interested in the broad theme attended the symposium. Teachers in schools who wanted to explore ways of connecting their classroom with museums and cultural sites also attended.
The discussion paper for the symposium entitled 'Building Bridges for historical learning: connecting teacher education and museum education' is available for download.
This Symposium was proudly supported by:- Museums Australia Education National Network
- Interpretation Australia Association
- History Teachers Association Australia
- Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage
Also supported by the following institutions in Canberra:
- ANU Museums and Collections
- Australian War Memorial
- Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
- National Archives of Australia
- National Film & Sound Archive
- National Library of Australia
- National Museum of Australia
- National Portrait Gallery
For more information please contact Assistant Professor Philip Roberts
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